Friday, June 08, 2007

Shrug Springs Eternal

This pattern is now at Ravelry!----------------------------------------------Something for the crocheters! I know y'all were feeling neglected, with countless knitters telling you that you make nothing but doilies and olive and burnt orange granny square afghans (btw, I admit to loving those colors).

This is how the story goes. I made this a couple months ago, and I found out about the Jimmy Beans Wool pattern contest the day before the deadline. I was just finishing this one up, so decided to submit it. It got slammed by a baby sweater, but they said they liked it and asked if it could be included in next month's contest, which I agreed to, where it got slammed again by yet another baby sweater. That's cool, it's not the most original thing in the world. So I'm releasing it to you all, for those of you who want something for yourselves or who have no babies (like me).

Crocheted in one piece from the top down in standard raglan fashion. Except that it doesn't seem so standard for crochet, which makes no sense because it's actually even easier to try on a top-down raglan in crochet because you don't have to take anything off the needles. Also in my current favorite crochet stitch. I don't particularly like the look of regular single or double crochet over and over again, but I like the look of this stitch which is a simple 2-stitch repeat and sub it in wherever I can. Don't worry that it's in fingering weight yarn. You don't have to get it too far past your boobs and, after all, it's crochet so it goes pretty fast. And check out those cute little puff sleeves. Huh, huh?

Okay, enough blab. With no further ado, the item (thanks to my boss for the name suggestion, which everyone preferred to his earlier suggestion of "Green Semi-Multi-Vest". yeah.) Um, it was done back in Spring, so the name made a lot of sense then. Patten is a pdf attachment, but you are forced to scroll through all of my trite pictures before you can access it. Mwahahaha!

Thanks for your nice comments on my Wicked -- regarding the fit problems: I reknit a bunch of the sweater twice (probably should have ripped out a few more rows in retrospect), and the neckline relaxed a lot after washing/blocking the sweater, so it was just different than I was expecting... but don't worry, I like it a lot!

This shrug is sooo adorable! That is just my style. I will definitely put this in my furture projects!!! How long have you been writing patterns? It looks like you've done a great job!! Oh! I found you on Stacey's blog!

I got your comment about the back of Askew. I won't forget...just haven't had a chance to take a picture of the back yet. I'll update the post about your request to see the back as a tank when I have the picture.

on rejection - the chicken soup editor/author guys, who are now so rich it hurts to think about it, were rejected by like 29 publishers before they finally found someone to put their stuff in a binding.